He comes from France. Clearly.

The thing that’s weird about the Sara/JJ thing is that Diggle remembers the previous history now, so he remembers having a son and he remembers finding out that his son was a crazy killer in the future. Is he just going to be cool with washing his hands of that potential disaster, or is he going to be as angry as he…

I’m sure that the series expanded her popularity, but in much the same way that Deadpool fandom was already a pretty big deal before the movies, there was definitely a dedicated Squirrel Girl fandom before her solo series.

I’m sure that the series is very good; I’ve heard nothing but praise, but unless my internal timeline is really off, I feel like the SG fandom exploded before the series came out, and the series was capitalizing on her popularity, rather than creating it. Which isn’t to say that the series hasn’t done good things for…

Yep. I’m sure that it’s very good, as I’ve only seen universal acclaim for it. But she developed a dedicated fandom before that series came out. And as you said, I thought of her as a gag character in GLA, even a good gag. But in much the same way that I never really understood why suddenly Deadpool fandom exploded in…

I’m sure that the series is indeed good, and I do plan to read it, but the fandom around the character predated that series. People just latched onto her in a way that didn’t click with me. 

By transcend, I just meant that the fandom is not tied to specific great stories. To use one of my examples, Deadpool was in some decent stories in the 90s, and then some very good stories in the early 00s, but somewhere around the mid to late 00s, Deadpool fandom kind of exploded, and it wasn’t strictly because…

I never “got” Squirrel Girl. I read Great Lakes Avengers back in the day, and she was a nice addition to the book, but I never understood the fandom that rose up around her. I hear her solo book is good, so I’ll get around to reading it eventually, but the enthusiasm seems to transcend any actual stories about her to…

Even later than that. That would be a very decent spectator in a mid-00s sports game.

I still think that it’s possible, if they would just make better Star Wars films.

Huh, I don’t know why this showed up in the links on the left side of the page, what with being a three year old story and all. 

Man, it’s truly shocking the number of people who have internalized the supposed rights of corporations to the detriment of the rights of normal people, like Fair Use. 

It took a long time for me to come out of the grays over on io9. As I understand it, this is something that’s left to the actual editors themselves, rather than there being any formal process for approval. So eventually someone notices that you’ve done a lot of constructive/well-liked comments and they follow you (or…

What has always killed the dual shock is the placement of the thumbsticks and the generally smaller size of the controllers. It’s possible that the DS4 is large enough that it would fit into my hands better than past units, but they’ve stuck to that damn symmetrical placement of the thumbsticks, and that’s a deal…

For me, the single biggest factor is what system my friends are going to buy, because if I’m going to play online, I’m going to play with them. And yeah, the Xbox One has provided me with plenty of games that I’d like to get to, but which I probably never will. It sucks that I didn’t get to play Insomniac’s Spider-Man…

I’ve had an Xbox One since about a year after launch. I’ve purchased maybe three physical disc games in that time, with everything else being digital downloads. And I haven’t traded any of those discs in to Gamestop or traded them with friends. And it’s fine.

One of my favorite bits of trivia is that before he was famous for making Sim City games, Will Wright completed a Cannonball Run.

This is an n of 1. We don’t know how much of this “safe” run was just luck, or how many subsequent runs would end in horrific crashes. Just because this one attempt didn’t result in any fatalities is not a good basis for lacking concern about the attempt being made in the first place.

The state of my Switch is that I continue to like it as a piece of hardware, but hardly ever use it. It’s small enough that I pack it on trips, but there are exceedingly few games on it that I’m interested in. 

I mean, what we know as of right now is that his grandfather was a member of the KKK, which would probably have made his grandfather an active member of the Klan around the time of the massacre. And Crawford isn’t disgusted enough by it to have thrown it out. Indeed, quite the opposite, he created a custom lit hidden…